The Sublime and The Structural: Fred Ingrams’ Landscape Paintings

  To mark the exclusive launch of nine new works by Fred Ingrams, painted between The Fens in Norfolk and the Flow Country in Scotland, our Curator Phin Jennings spoke with the artist about the meaning and importance of the two landscapes and how they impact his practice. “We’ve only just got the internet here,” Fred Ingrams tells me on our first Zoom call. It’s just as well. I am writing a feature – this feature – to accompany a launch of his new paintings and, as he is in the process of moving his home and studio, we have decided to speak on a series of calls rather than an in-person visit. He is moving from The Fens, the distinctively flat landscape that he has become known for his paintings of, to a new spot on Norfolk’s north coast. He doesn’t miss a beat when I ask him whether he feels better or worse off for being connected to Wi-Fi: “worse.”    During the course of the move we have three conversations in as many weeks. Ingrams spends this time between Norfolk and ...